PDF Tools

PDF remains the standard format for sharing documents because it preserves layout, fonts, and formatting exactly the same way across every device and operating system. But working with PDFs day-to-day often means reaching for a mix of separate tools — one to combine files, another to shrink them for email, another to pull out a single page. FilesFortress brings all of that into one place.

The PDF tools here cover the tasks people run into most often: merging several PDFs into a single document, splitting a large file into individual pages or custom ranges, and compressing oversized files so they fit under email attachment limits. Beyond that, you can convert PDFs to and from JPG and PNG images, reorder or rotate pages without re-exporting the whole document, and add a watermark across every page.

Document hygiene matters too. The metadata viewer lets you inspect what's actually embedded in a PDF — author name, creation date, software used — before you share it, and the metadata remover strips that information out when you don't want it attached to the file. For documents that need real encryption, password protection is available as a server-processed capability, since encrypting a PDF properly isn't something that can be done safely with client-side JavaScript alone.

Every local PDF tool runs directly in your browser using a JavaScript PDF library, meaning your file is read, transformed, and handed back to you as a download without ever being uploaded anywhere. That matters for contracts, ID scans, financial statements, and any other document you'd rather not send through a third-party server just to merge or compress it.